If you’re thinking of some enormous flying creature with teeth or talons carrying deadly venom, you’ll need to reign in your imagination. No known bird actively injects or produces venom – but the ...

For centuries, debate has raged over whether or not history’s most famous mythological creatures exist, and if you ever ...

Dice a flatworm any which way and each fragment will in time become a fully functional creature. How flatworms do this is not ...

Viral fishing content creator Ryan Izquierdo caught a monster yelloweye rockfish in Sitka, Alaska that is older than your grandmother! Ryan Izquierdo is a ...

Deep-sea explorers discovered tiny, jet-black spheres clinging to rocks nearly four miles beneath the Pacific Ocean. These ...

Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on ...

Urokodia aequalis, an early Cambrian marine predator from the Chengjiang biota of China, preserves the earliest known evidence of chelicerae -- the pincer-like structures that later evolved into the ...

Nature's most striking animals share a surprisingly common fashion statement, and their polka dots do far more than just look ...

A mind wrapped in skin and bone can feel like the obvious model for consciousness. But that assumption may say more about where you live than about what consciousness really requires.

A Florida resident got a surprise when a ball python was found near their vehicle's engine after the hood was opened.

One of the world’s most biodiverse marine locations, the Coral Triangle, has yielded a new species of shark. This very special creature is a type of walking shark, meaning it can use its fins to walk ...

These wildly different films explore the wondrous, and sometimes terrifying possibilities of contacting extra-terrestrial life.